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  1-10 of 61 Reviews about "Distributed Systems (D.4.7...)": Date Reviewed
  The calculus of service availability
Sloss B., Dahlin M., Rau V., Beyer B. Queue 15(2): 49-67, 2017.  Type: Article

The authors give a brief introduction to the service availability required by service-level objectives (SLOs) for availability and responsiveness. The article makes many references to Google’s Site reliability engineering:...

May 21 2020
  Rule-based curation and preservation of data: a data grid approach using iRODS
Hedges M., Blanke T., Hasan A. Future Generation Computer Systems 25(4): 446-452, 2009.  Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 2)

Why would anybody want to use iRODS? It’s just a glorified file transfer protocol (FTP) system with a database, isn’t it? This paper answers the question. The authors point out that “there is a pressing ne...

Jun 29 2009
  Towards supporting multiple virtual private computing environments on computational grids
Wang L., Jie W. Advances in Engineering Software 40(4): 239-245, 2009.  Type: Article

Wang and Jie present a computational environment for scientists and other grid computer users that is simple enough to allow them to take advantage of its power, yet shields them from its intricacies. Their approach consists of a softw...

Jun 4 2009
  Rule-based curation and preservation of data: a data grid approach using iRODS
Hedges M., Blanke T., Hasan A. Future Generation Computer Systems 25(4): 446-452, 2009.  Type: Article, Reviews: (1 of 2)

This paper tackles an important topic. Nowadays, many of our activities rely on resources stored in digital format. The rapid obsolescence of computer environments, due to advances in both hardware and software, makes the preservation ...

May 26 2009
  Design and implementation of a workflow-based resource broker with information system on computational grids
Yang C., Lai K., Shih P. The Journal of Supercomputing 47(1): 76-109, 2009.  Type: Article

Yang, Lai, and Shih compile, in this paper, several of their conference publications on the design and implementation of a grid platform. This platform was developed as part of the TIGER project, and integrated resources distributed ac...

May 12 2009
  Distributed and parallel systems: in focus: desktop grid computing
Kacsuk P., Lovas R., Nemeth Z., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 210 pp.  Type: Book (9780387794471)

This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems (DAPSYS) 2008, with a focus on grid computing. Grid computing has emerged as a hot topic of discussion in the computer sc...

Jan 23 2009
  Do-all computing in distributed systems
Georgiou C., Shvartsman A., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2007. 219 pp.  Type: Book (9780387309187)

In the so-called Do-All problem, p processors that are connected through a network are required to perform n independent tasks cooperatively and in the presence of adversity. This abstraction has b...

Jul 15 2008
  Distributed services with OpenAFS: for enterprise and education
Gehrke W., Milicchio F., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2007. 395 pp.  Type: Book (9783540366331)

Many books cover isolated aspects of distributed enterprises, such as email or single sign-on authentication. Others address the overall concepts behind distributed systems. This book makes the unique contribution of detailing the proc...

May 15 2008
  Grid technologies: emerging from distributed architectures to virtual organizations (Advances in Management Information)
Bekakos M., Gravvanis G., Arabnia H., WIT Press, 2006. 475 pp.  Type: Book (9781845640552)

In a nutshell, this book is aimed at graduate or postgraduate students and researchers who work with grid technologies. The editors have done a fine job of compiling its many self-contained chapters, ultimately creating a logical path ...

Nov 12 2007
  Distributed systems (Computer and Information Sciences Series)
Ghosh S., Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006. 424 pp.  Type: Book (9781584885641)

The current broad range of distributed systems, including peer-to-peer and sensor networks, is described in this excellent book. Looking into the past shows where current systems came from, and the concepts and techniques that underlie...

Oct 5 2007
 
 
 
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